> @erik, @cinap: > 9front and 9atom booted properly. 9atom live-boot option didn't work, > but installation proceeded to [mountdist]. At that point I couldn't > figure out a way to point it correctly to the distribution, my linux > partition, though suggested, wouldn't mount. I had a plan9.iso there. > Before that at [partdisk] I manually specified a 3GB partition in some > raw free space I had. So I aborted, and then on I cannot boot into > Linux (I had backed up, so no worries). Why should the existing linux > boot partition get spoiled? Booting in with a rescue CD (Ubuntu Rescue > Remix), I can 'fdisk -l' all the partitions as they were. The NTFS > partition (I have Windows installed), and other ext3 partitions can be > mounted and navigated except for the boot partition (where root was > mounted).
the fact that the live-boot doesn't work is sort of well-known. sorry about that. i don't know why your mbr is getting wacked. that's antisocial. i never dual-boot myself. i'll try to look at it this weekend. it's probablly as thiery points out that we're trying to overlay some chs crap onto a massive sata drive. can you send me the output of cat /dev/sd*/ctl when you get a chance? also, could you send me a fdisk summary of what the partition table looks like? a raw dump of the first 16 sectors of the drive would be even better. - erik